. Essex county, , illustrated . father before he took charge of the business. As the reader turns the pages of this ESSKXCiiUNiv, N. \i|..D, and art ;l reads the short and succinct histories of the-• industries, there are few who will find thatthe speaks a better language than thatrc|)resenting the great establishment of Finter \Co., on this page, one of the oldest in its line inNewark, and conducted by his son. Thousands ofbusiness houses all over County and of New Jersey have abundant reason of Ihe good w


. Essex county, , illustrated . father before he took charge of the business. As the reader turns the pages of this ESSKXCiiUNiv, N. \i|..D, and art ;l reads the short and succinct histories of the-• industries, there are few who will find thatthe speaks a better language than thatrc|)resenting the great establishment of Finter \Co., on this page, one of the oldest in its line inNewark, and conducted by his son. Thousands ofbusiness houses all over County and of New Jersey have abundant reason of Ihe good work clone by this of wagon builders. For nearly a half a. inliiry ihe name of Finter branded on a wagonhas been aci (pled as the sign of its high (pialilyill the of New Jersey. Ihe life-like photos of the founder and his son,who at pnseiit so ably conducts the liusiness, arespeaking likenesses of Ihe men who have been fac-lors in promoting ihe carriage and wagon industryfr which Newark has become so justly FRIinEKICK FINTEH, FOIINDEK. ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED. 197 JOHN REILLY. THE future of Newark as a nianiifactiiriiig point is nota matter of guess-work. It would have been madea certainty by its leatlier interests alone. The magni-tude of this industry can scarcely be related without ex-citing a doubt as to the credibility of the narrator andthe credulity of the reader, but in commercial circles theimmensity of the business is well known. In the front rank of the patent and enameled leathermanufacturers, stands Mr. Reilly, who, in 1871, establishedthe factory on A\enue C, Murray and Astor Streets, nearEmmet Street Station, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, nowone of the most prominent plants of its kind in thecountry. Every process through which the leatherpasses from its crude state to its hnished state is underhis personal supervision, and its market is the thoroughness of manufacture and an enterprisingpolicy of doing business, coupled


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